The Story of M-Pesa
This 6-minute animation tells the story of how M-PESA, the popular mobile money transfer program, came to be in Kenya. It's narrated by Michael Joseph, the managing director of mobile money at Vodafone and the program's founder. The animation was produced as part of a series of online courses designed and delivered by the USAID Mobile Solutions Team, QED, and TechChange, a DC ...

Gold Mobile cannes Lions 2014 / PAY PER LAUGH
The Teatreneu club in Barcelona has introduced the system. It’s a response, reportedly, to a spike in Spanish government taxes on theatre tickets, which has scared audiences off live performance. This pay-per-laugh wheeze draws on facial recognition technology. A tablet is fitted to the back of each seat, which reads audience members’ facial expressi ...

Baidu union advertising
Baidu SEM now has a database of over 300,000 websites for Baidu union ads. And they are categorized into 25 fields and 115 sub-brands. Baidu union ad users can select the websites they want to put their ads on according to the categories. For example, if a cosmetics company wants to promote themselves via Baidu union ads, targeting on young fashion female, they could choo ...